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They didn't say that laptop users were costing them $2000 / month, but that they were trying to cut their $2000 / month bill down. Big difference. If the coff
by ryanwaggoner 17y ago
They didn't say that laptop users were costing them $2000 / month, but that they were trying to cut their $2000 / month bill down. Big difference.
If the coffee shop is open 18 hours per day, 30 days a month, and the average laptop pulls 50w, which costs $.20 per kWh, they'd need to have like 350-400 laptops plugged in every single hour that they're open to rack up $2k / month in costs.
If you bring your laptop in and sit for six hours, you've just cost them seven cents in electricity.
- Retric 17y agoThe average laptop today pulls in far more than 50w. If everyone was using a net book with a fully charged battery is's one thing, but while charging I have measured up to 200w from a "gaming" laptop. Plus you need to double the energy costs as they guy sitting there and his laptop both increase cooling costs. Rerun the numbers and you can easily get 500+$ / month in energy costs from people just sitting there using a laptop.
- jimboyoungblood 17y agoI was a regular at Ritual back when they covered the plugs. I recall: 1) Most people there were either blogging, checking email, surfing myspace and craigslist, or doing the newfangled Rails thing. The machines were 90% Macs. 2) The place was cooled by opening the back door and turning on a big floor fan. On hot days, this lowered the temperature from unbearable to merely very hot. In your hypothetical air conditioned coffee shop where everyone is playing WoW on behemoth laptops, $500/month incurred by laptops is possible. But for Ritual Roasters circa 2004, definitely not. (btw, I thought it was a fantastic idea when they covered up the plugs)